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This seems like an interesting development and maybe could lead to even more affordable cloud offerings by Hetzner sometime down the line (of course the AI/ML s
by KronisLV 5y ago
This seems like an interesting development and maybe could lead to even more affordable cloud offerings by Hetzner sometime down the line (of course the AI/ML spin of the article might imply something else, which is fine too).
As it stands, right now they seem like one of the most affordable hosts out there. In comparison, Contabo's UI is a bit ancient and apparently they overprovision resources, most other hosts like DigitalOcean/Vultr/Scaleway are all more expensive.
I guess Scaleway had Stardust instances which were really affordable but everything with higher specs was a bit less affordable, even though their managed services are pretty nice.
If it were more on topic, i'd ask what people here are using for when they want VPSes for a side project or something along those lines, though as it stands i'm all for seeing more ARM offerings, as long as running certain software on them isn't too much of a problem.
- usr1106 5y agoI really liked Scaleway's ARM offering as long as it lasted. The old native one (no virtualization). It was rock-solid in my experience.
- KronisLV 5y agoYou kind of have to wonder about why it didn't work out and become more popular to keep the product around. Then again, i feel the same way about Intel Atom and most other low-power offerings - it puzzles me that they never got big. Having low cost/high density options for hosting stuff online would be pretty great. After all, lots of people already run Raspberry Pi clusters at home.
- petercooper 5y agoI'm very open to corrections, but from what I recall of it, it was extremely custom to them, in terms of hardware, and seemed experimental. I suspect the logistics of managing a lot of custom equipment that wasn't making big money (as Amazon does with Graviton) wouldn't have been super appealing long term.
- usr1106 5y agoI had the same impression. For a turnover of 50 EUR per year and instance it was hard to see (for me as a complete outsider) how it could be an interesting business. Amazon charges more (as usual...), I know even less about their hardware.
- petercooper 5y agoThe advantage Amazon has is that their hardware isn't really their USP whereas those Arm devices were for Scaleway at the time. While AWS does make a song and dance about Graviton (and quite rightly, IMO) AWS can really develop and shuffle in whatever tech they want behind the scenes as long as it runs customer workloads.